Tutorials

Tutorials for soot

Reference Material

• Command line options, Phase options and JavaDoc
• PLDI Tutorial

The following guide exists but is quite outdated. We welcome updates to it.

• A Survivor's Guide to Java Program Analysis with Soot (by Arni Einarsson and Janus Dam Nielsen)

General notions

• Fundamental Soot Objects
• Packs and phases in Soot
• A brief overview of Shimple

Getting Started

• Introduction: Soot as a command-line tool
• Disassembling classfiles

A few uses of Soot

• Using Soot as a Program Optimizer
• Using Soot and TamiFlex to analyze DaCapo
• Implementing an intra-procedural data-flow analysis in Soot
• Instrumenting Android Apps with Soot

Using Soot as a framework for inter-procedural program analysis

Soot allows you to implement inter-procedural program analyses in a template-driven style using a number of modular add-on frameworks:

• Use Inter-procedural program analysis with Soot and Heros to implement a distributive program analysis based on IFDS/IDE.

Using Soot as a command-line tool

• Annotation Options for Array Bounds and Null Pointer Checks
• Using Side-Effect Attributes

Using Soot as a compiler framework

• Creating a Class File from Scratch
• Adding attributes to class files (Basic)
• Adding attributes to class files (Advanced)
• Adding profiling instructions to applications
• Using Soot with custom entry points
• Whole program Devirtualization Optimizations
• Java's Invokedynamic

NOTE: If you find any bugs in those tutorials (or other parts of Soot) please help us out by reporting them in our issue tracker.